​THURS., SEPT. 20 @ 7PM: NATHANIEL POPKIN, CONTRIBUTING EDITOR OF HIDDEN CITY DAILY AND AUTHOR OF PHILADELPHIA: FINDING THE HIDDEN CITY, READS FROM HIS NOVEL EVERYTHING IS BORROWED AND DISCUSSES IT WITH JOURNALIST AND FICTION WRITER EMMA EISENBERG. THE NOVEL, ABOUT AN ARCHITECT WHOSE LIFE STRANGELY PARALLELS THAT OF A 19TH-CENTURY MAN WITH A SIMILAR NAME, IS A MEDITATION ON CRUELTY AND REGRET, A DREAMLIKE TOUR OF A CITY THROUGH TIME, AND AN EVOCATIVE PORTRAIT OF RADICAL JEWISH LIFE OF ANOTHER AGE. POPKIN AND EISENBERG WILL EXPLORE THE BOOK’S MANY THEMES: THE HISTORY LIVING WITHIN US, THE DESIRE TO LIVE A JUSTIFIED LIFE, AND THE WAYS WE DEAL WITH MISTAKES AND REMORSE.​

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MON., SEPT. 24 @ 6:30 PM @ NARBERTH BOROUGH HALL: WE'LL BE SELLING AN ARRAY OF BOOKS ON RELEVANT ECO-TOPICS AT THE RECYCLING Q&A. TO LEARN MORE, VISIT THE RECYCLING Q&A EVENT PAGE ON FACEBOOK.​
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THURSDAY, OCT. 4 @ 7 PM: JOIN AUTHOR DEBORAH SPUNGEN FOR A DISCUSSION OF HER NEW BOOK, TABLE FOR ONE: ESSAYS FROM A WIDOW'S JOURNEY. A FREQUENT LECTURER ON TRAUMATIC GRIEF, SPUNGEN EXAMINES THE PROCESS OF RECONSTRUCTING HER LIFE FOLLOWING THE 2010 PASSING OF HER HUSBAND, FRANK, JUST SEVEN WEEKS AFTER HE BECAME ILL. IN HIS LAST WEEKS HE TOLD HER TO GO HOME AGAIN, AND SO SHE DID, BUILDING A NEW LIFE WITH NEW FRIENDS. DISCOVER HOW WRITING HER STORY BECAME THE KEY TO THE PROCESS. FOLLOW AS SHE TRAVERSES WIDOWHOOD ONE ESSAY AT A TIME. LEARN HOW SHE FOCUSED ON WHAT WAS, WHAT IS AND WHAT COULD BE AS SHE DISCOVERS THAT SHE HAS THE POWER TO FIND PEACE AGAIN.